Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 09.19.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, you know my clothesing remarks today, It's just a commentary.
I guess. I just want to share a couple of
personal viewpoints that I have, and these are just my opinions.
You're free to have your own, You're free to disagree
with anything I'm saying. I just have a few random thoughts.

(00:20):
I guessed that I just wanted to say. You know,
I've been in this country my entire life. I grew
up as a child in the sixties. I grew up
in Wels, West Virginia and Cleveland, Ohio. I've seen colors only,
water fountains, bathrooms, segregation. I saw that that wasn't even bussing.

(00:46):
When I was in school, we were purely just segregated.
You went to school in your neighborhood, you ain't go
in certain boundaries everything. I've watched this country evolve over
the years, and I've watch this country stay the same
over the years. I watched our previous presidential election, and
the main compound from our main campaign promise from our

(01:11):
president was to make America great again. I said it
from the very beginning. That's a dangerous slogan because if
you're asking me and telling me that you want to
make America great again, you're assuming that it's not the
way you want it to be, and you want to
take it back to a place and time in history.

(01:32):
And as I reflect back on my place in time
and history, I can't remember when it was better for me.
This is as good as it's ever been for me.
And it still has so many holes in this constitution,
and so many bullet holes shot in that flag, so
many tags and rips in it. And it's just been

(01:55):
hard to watch the senseless murders of black people in
this country at the hands of police officers. It's been
difficult to watch. It's been difficult to be a part of.
It's been difficult raising my sons, to teach them how
to act when they pulled over so I can get

(02:15):
my sons back home. It's been challenging to get my
sons not to wear hoodies. It's been challenging watching civilians
kill black people with no consequences. George's Zimmermann lied. I'm
talking about openly lied and believed it. It's been tough, man,

(02:37):
it's been tough. And then to listen to somebody say
let's make America great again and have to deal with
where we are today. This is a sad, sad place.
We don't have a democracy anymore. We live in where
where we have a leader of our country who refuses
to say anything to unify us as a people. Just

(03:00):
say something, presidential, man, your opinion, keep it to yourself. Sometimes.
I know I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this,
but I'm gonna say it anyway, and then boom, here
we go some more dissension. I have watched the rise
of white supremacist groups in this country since this man
has been in office, because they feel as though one
of us is finally in and we're free and able

(03:23):
to say more. I've never said. I've always known it
was racism, y'all, please understand I have, but the openness
of it now is blatant, shameless. I applaud the number
of non blacks that I see on Instagram still holding true.
I watched this one man that just made me laugh

(03:43):
the other day. His whole thing was, why don't we
just leave black people alone? And then there are non
blacks who actually know the history, you know, why don't
y'all get y'allself together? And this one lady said, well,
every time they try, y'all go and get it down.
Why don't y'all do something positive, every positive movement, our

(04:04):
own wall street, our own towns and villages, they burned
them down to the ground. And now you want to
hide that in the history books as this it never existed.
I'm tired, man, I really am. I'm just exhausted. I'm exhausted,
you know what. I'm exhausted from asking everybody to just

(04:24):
treat us equal, not better. I watched people say lately
that the Civil Rights Act was wrong, it should have
never happened. Do you know what Civil Rights Act all
it was saying? It just asked America to treat us civil.

(04:46):
This ain't the better acts right, to give us more
acts right. It was simply a civil right. All black
people want is to be treated civil, just civil. You
ain't got to give me no extra gott to open
up no door. But let me say this one more thing,
because like I said, I got a bunch of random thoughts.

(05:07):
If you get on a plane and you see a
black pilot, here's what you should do. Look at him, smile,
Go take a seat, put on your seat belt, get
your iPad out, and start playing your self games because
you are in the safest hands you could possibly be in.
Because let me tell you something you're wondering. If he qualified,

(05:30):
he's had to do ten times what the requirements are
for him to be in that pool, to be up
in that cockpit. So sit your sit in your chair
and enjoy your flight because you got an overqualified person
up there in that seat. That next time you see
a black pilot on the plane, put your hands together
for it and go sit you down and enjoy your

(05:50):
very safe flight because the ain't not now one of
them took a plane down. In the history of aviation
that go all the way back to the Tuskegee Airmen,
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